Puppy attacked, struck with blunt object and discarded in a dumpster - (Scranton, PA - US)    
         
       
         
    Crime Date: 06/20/2002    
         
    Case Report
A 3 month old female pit bull was found Monday morning, November 18th in a dumpster on Meylert Ave. in Scranton, Pennsylvania.. She was in very poor condition, suffering from blunt trauma and tearing injuries to her right eye. Vast tracts of skin were also torn from her body. She was treated at the Veterinary Medical Center in Blakely, Pennsylvania from November 18th
2001 to January 28th, 2002, when she was placed in a permanent home.


34 year old Aaron Brown of South Scranton was subsequently arrested by Scranton Police and officers of the Humane Society of Lackawanna County on Friday evening, November 23. He was charged with three counts of animal cruelty and was held on $50,000 bond in the Lackawanna County Jail. On Thursday, June, 20th, 2002, Aaron Brown was sentenced to 11 to 23 months in the Lackawanna County prison, fined $1,000 and ordered to make undetermined restitution.


The puppy died of a severe abdominal infection 3 days after her abuser was convicted.
 
   
                                   

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